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Topic Lesson 20: //**Don Quixote and the WIndmills**//

Common Core Standards RL5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. W5.3a-e Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. W5.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. W5.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will use text based details to explain characters' actions. 2. Students will write a personal narrative.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts Poetry
 * __ The Phantom Tollbooth, __ by Norton Juster
 * __ Don Quixote, __ by Marcia Williams
 * __ Stories of Don Quixote, __ by James Baldwin
 * __ Don Quixote (candlewick illustrated classic), __ by Martin Jenkins
 * "The Ant and the Cricket," //Aesop's Fable//
 * "The Man, the Boy and the Donkey," //Aesop's Fable//
 * "Smart," by Shel Silverstein

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Activities
 * Students will work in small groups to perform a play: Student Book, pages 518-520.
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 517. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "Mighty Monsters" or "What Makes You Laugh?"

Assessments

1. Practice Book, pages 229-230 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T345 and R18 3. Weekly Test 20.4-20.5

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